The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said it has extended the mandate of its military mission in The Gambia. The force, consisting mainly of soldiers from neighbouring Senegal, was...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte offered large bounties Monday for the leaders of Islamist fighters holding parts of a southern city as the military warned its recapture may take longer than...
Sri Lanka's military recorded its biggest peacetime deployment for search and rescue operations after monsoon rains triggered landslides and floods that killed 213 people, the government said Monday....
Men, women and children walk down a main road in west Mosul with arms full and carts loaded, but they are not among the people fleeing fighting in the city. The operation to retake Mosul from the...
Protesters in northern Morocco have remained defiant for a second week, taking their anger over unemployment and alleged corruption to the streets. On Sunday, hundreds took part in a ninth straight...
The United States on Monday gave the Philippines hundreds of machine guns, pistols and grenade launchers, which a local commander said would be used against Islamist militants battling troops in a...
The family of slain military officer, Captain Maxwell Mahama, has said it has accepted a proposal from some organizations to create an endowment fund to receive generous contributions from Ghanaians....
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region. They say Qatar backs terrorist groups including Islamic State...
Police investigating Saturday night’s terror attack in London say they know the identity of the three attackers who killed seven people and injured 48. The Metropolitan Police said their names...
Philippine opposition lawmakers on Monday asked the Supreme Court to reject President Rodrigo Duterte's imposition of martial law in the south of the country, branding it unconstitutional. Duterte...
Indian paramilitary forces killed four attackers who tried to storm their camp in the disputed Kashmir region early Monday. The gunmen lobbed grenades and fired automatic weapons outside the Central...
Top US and Australian officials on Monday warned battle-hardened and angry foreign fighters may return to Southeast Asia from the Middle East and take up arms in their own countries. The warning...
The acting US ambassador to Britain, Lewis Lukens, threw his support behind London Mayor Sadiq Khan in a series of tweets on Sunday that appeared to be a rebuttal to the criticism from his boss,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday joined West African leaders at a summit in Liberia, where they hailed peacekeeping efforts in the region but warned about threats to stability....
US President Donald Trump's administration called on China Sunday to respect human rights and release from prison those jailed for trying to keep alive the memory of the Tiananmen Square...
London mayor Sadiq Khan has "more important things to do" than respond to an "ill-informed" tweet sent by US President Donald Trump after the London terror attack, his office said Sunday. "The Mayor...
The government in Sunni-ruled Bahrain announced Sunday an indefinite ban on the independent Al-Wasat newspaper on accusations that it publishes "what sows division" in the Shiite-majority Gulf...
Donald Trump lashed out Sunday at London's mayor Sadiq Khan, accusing him of downplaying the threat of terrorism a day after knife-wielding men mowed down and stabbed revelers in the British capital....
North Korea on Sunday slammed the latest UN sanctions as "mean" and vowed to press ahead with its missile and nuclear weapons programmes. The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted a...
US President Donald Trump said Sunday the attack in London showed it was time to "stop being politically correct," warning the threat will only grow worse otherwise. "We must stop being politically...
